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    Cerebrum
    Cerebrum
    Cerebrum
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    Cerebrum

    By Lloyd Birmingham and Albert Teichner

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Cerebrum - Lloyd Birmingham

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cerebrum, by Albert Teichner

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Cerebrum

      Author: Albert Teichner

      Illustrator: Lloyd Birmingham

      Release Date: October 3, 2008 [EBook #26761]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CEREBRUM ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      CEREBRUM

      By ALBERT TEICHNER

      For thousands of years the big brain served as a

      master switchboard for the thoughts

      and emotions of humanity.

      Now the central mind was showing signs of decay

      ... and men went mad.

      Illustrated by BIRMINGHAM

      The trouble began in a seemingly trivial way. Connor had wanted to speak to Rhoda, his wife, wished himself onto a trunk line and then waited. Dallas Shipping here, Mars and points Jupiterward, at your service, said a business-is-business, unwifely voice in his mind.

      I was not calling you, he thought back into the line, now also getting a picture, first flat, then properly 3-D and in color. It was a paraNormally luxurious commercial office.

      I am the receptionist at Dallas Shipping, the woman thought back firmly. You rang and I answered.

      I'm sure I rang right, Connor insisted.

      And I'm sure I know my job, Dallas Shipping answered. I have received as many as five hundred thought messages a day, some of them highly detailed and technical and—

      Forget it, snapped Connor. Let's say I focussed wrong.

      He pulled back and twenty seconds later finally had Rhoda on the line. Queerest thing happened, he projected. I just got a wrong party.

      Nothing queer about it, his wife smiled, springing to warm life on his inner eye. You just weren't concentrating, Connor.

      Don't you hand me that too, he grumbled. "I know I thought on the right line into Central. Haven't I been using the System for sixty years?"

      Exactly—all habit and no attention.

      How smugly soothing she was some days! I think the trouble's in Central itself. The Switcher isn't receiving me clearly.

      Lately I've had some peculiar miscalls myself, Rhoda said nervously. "But you can't blame Central Switching!"

      Oh, I didn't mean that! By now he was equally nervous and only too happy to end the conversation. Ordinarily communications were not monitored but if this one had been there could certainly be a slander complaint.

      On his way home in the monorail Connor tried to reach his office and had the frightening experience of having his telepathic call refused by Central. Then he refused in turn to accept a call being projected at him, but when an Urgent classification was added he had to take it. For your unfounded slander of Central Switching's functioning, announced the mechanically-synthesized voice, "you are hereby Suspended indefinitely

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